for change dance collective (fcdc) has been developing choreographic material for nearly two years in preparation for the October 2018 premiere of "At Night, We Go Inside to Sleep", an evening-length dance performance inspired by stories of survival, resilience, and compassionate power found in a rural village in Nicaragua called Villa Catalina.

We are raising money to help make this show a reality and we are so close. Your donation will specifically allow us to do the following:

1) Pay our collaborators including the dancers, composers, and musicians who are involved2) Cover the cost of rehearsal space and theatre rental for our culminating performanceTo show our gratitude to our supporters...

-All donors will be listed on our website-Donors giving $25+ will receive an fcdc sticker and VIP seating at the show

More about "At Night, We Go Inside to Sleep" (The Nicaragua Project):

The neighborhood of Villa Catalina was built from the ground up after Hurricane Mitch devastated a small agricultural community in 1998. Now twenty years later, the children of Villa Catalina are fighting to break out of cycles of poverty and dreaming of creating a new reality for themselves and their community.

Explorations in this highly collaborative process seek to discover the ways in which our individual lives are differentiated by who we are in the daytime, and what we can become in our dreams. In a liminal space between fighting to survive and imagining a world of our own creation, how do we find compassion and repose? And how can we tap into the wisdom of our communities, ancestors, and folk traditions to find spiritual guidance?

Osmar Narvaez, a performance artist with the organization Teatro Catalina , will collaborate with fcdc on the creation and performance of this dance theater work, and Nicaraguan composer Andres Martinez and American composer Nicolas Lell Benavides will collaborate with fcdc in the writing of new music in a combination of recorded and live music.

fcdc is a Bay Area dance company that has been making work since 2010. Our mission is to make dance in an environment that fosters the complete creative investment of each of our collaborators, and to present performances in ways that broaden the accessibility of innovative modern dance to new audiences.

THANK YOU to everyone who donated the last 4 days while our anonymous donor was matching donations. We made amazing progress towards our goal and are now over 77% of the way there! Our GoFundMe campaign will remain open until September 15, so please continue to share the link with your networks to help us reach our goal!

Thank you for your support! We are nearly half way to our goal. We have an anonymous donor who is matching every donation until the end of the day on 9/1! If you can, please share the link with your networks to help us reach our goal! Many many thanks!